Telling people to read manuals.

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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Dave Mielke wrote:
 > This discussion is getting silly. Are you now claiming that a request to "read"
 > the manual shouldn't be made of you because you can't "read" it? Does someone
 > need to first ask you how you "read" your computer screen, and then change
 > their language such that they correctly instruct you to either "feel" or
 > "listen" to the manual? Grow up!
Then for you we ahve to redefine RTFM as well to STFM or FFTM that would be
sick now wouldn't it?

 > I'm completely blind, yet, to avoid ruining
 > the flow of a conversation, I'll still say that I "watch" television.
agreed. A blind dutch comic made a scatch of this once where every word
that could be misinterpreted by a blind person was said then corrected to
the literal quivelant. Hilarious to say the least, but not practical in
real life.
Anyways, this is offtopic conserning this thread btw.

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